Client: Newcrest Mining Limited
Location: Orange
Scope of Works: Southern Tailings Dam construction. Project Value approximately $1.5m
Works Included
- Establishment of borrow pits for clay zone 1 material. Moisture conditioning and placement of this material within tight moisture tolerances
- Placement of imported zone 2 filter material in conjunction with adjacent layers
- Receiving mine supplied overburden material and placement as a zone 2 material
- Sorting of mine supplied overburden and placement of rock to upstream face of dam wall
- This project involved working within a mine lease and interaction with mine operations.